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Your Mistress Defiled

Has your violence taken you to places I’ve not been? Or driven you to things I’ve not seen? Was your soul mired in conflict once raised from the dead? Were your walls built to fortify excuses and blame? Have your choices been forged by damnation and fear? Did love matter at all when it cried through the pain? Could you still hear its voice on those darkest of nights? Are those places you conquered in tribute now shamed? Did your victims kneel down their heads bowed in defeat? Was mercy rejected your mistress defiled? Has your violence taken you to places I’ve not been? Or driven you to things I’ve not seen? (Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

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Date: 1/19/2019 1:23:00 AM
Brutal, but almost quietly so. Very good write.
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Kurt Philip Behm
Date: 1/19/2019 9:04:00 AM
Thanks Lawrence. Brutality and violence often are. Great weekend! Kurt

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